diorlancome

although your answer is not destined to me, i want to air my thoughts.

as chinese, we usually care about the problem of age much more than the local people do. if there is an alternative way in which we can achieve the same social and economic level we hope to reach, when making a big decision like this, there will be no discussion about this topic.

the age is a big problem, but since we have no substituted way to reach our goal without spending too much time, we take it and we assume the consequences this will bring upon us.(because we have no choice.)

that's the difference between an immigrant and a quebecer.

that's also why the immigrants from the developping countries need five or six years to achieve the same level of the average canadian level. to prouve this point, u can ask your colleague's wife how her parents make a living.

language, of couse, is another big problem. i guess most of our chinese have made an interesting but desperate observation about our linguistic capacity and other peoples' : people from Africa speak french or english; people from the south america and the east of europe learn french or english quickly and efficiently. but why not us? since we perhaps spend much more time on it and we are extremely motivated. no chance, since we don't come from the same alphabetic system.
chinese people who don't want to study french usaully hold an understanding attitude of hatred towards the french language.

here, i guess that bilingual capability is necessary to get a good job in Quebec in most of cases. to achieve this, the old wisdom seems useful: hard working and good practice.

anyway, i still think the specialty is much more important than language skills, since 56 percent of quebec population are bilingual.  a period of five or six years cannot gurantee that we could have a desired level of language skills, but this time is enough for us to have a professional title and who cannot agree that our lenguage level will be better, thanks probably to our intensive studies and stages.

Post by Alan2u
我鼓励你一下。 年龄不是问题。双语才是大问题！我一同事的老婆，大约44左右，医学管理本科才毕业，今年找到一份医院的管理工作，时薪28元。这人从来没有在医院工作过，做过收银，做过房地产，但她在这里长大的，印度人。

diorlancome

Post by luftballon
说个不一样的看法.跟风走有的时候是适应潮流,有的时候就是盲从,比如一窝风得移民,一窝风得海待,一窝风得来QUEBEC,一窝风得学这学那...

首先要明白自己想要什么样的生活,然后是要具备什么样的能力,再是根据自身条件(如经历,毅力,吃苦能力...)决定做什么,最后还要看所选择的地方是不是真得值得留下来做.没有一样专业,一样工作或一种生活是高于或低于其他人的.也不能简单得拿现在式看将来式.行行出状元,出人才.做好了决定就要坚持不渝,别人没达到的不一定你就达不到,别人达到的你将来若没达到,但为此奋斗了,也不枉亏这一生.

thanks for your remarks.

we really dislike following others aimlessly without further thinking. so we spent nearly two months collecting all the information, studying every program available in cegeps, universities and professional training schools.  and we even had an intention not to look for information about accounting, for we knew there was a large chinese population who has already been engaged in this way.
but every time we consult employquebec or other sites, there are always much more offers in this field. so we started to pay attention to this...

we still have no answer. anyway, we will make several choices and wait to see what will happen... let the nature take its course.

diorlancome

Post by gzlxy
Your wife is 25 years. Why don't you have a baby? Why don't you open your own business?

In my opinion, Studying for a CA/CPA is just a waste of time, because if you want to be a financial director, you should work as a accounting firstly, you should have at lease 5-10 years work experence, you should have the communication ability, you should have the good relationship with the CEO.

Try and get your own business even it is small at first.

really good points. i totally agree with u as to starting a business.
sooner or later, we will do business. but i prefer to have a good job first, then start our business at the same time.

diorlancome

thanks for your replies.

diorlancome

Post by gzlxy
If you want to find a job, I think maybe you should find a job in the field similar to your major or work background. I think maybe you souldn't just look at the job opportunities.

My work experience tells me that if you don't enter a industry, you can not know it in details. In fact, you just listen to some peope talk about the accounting, you probably don't konw the details in accounting industry. Maybe you will consider your interesting(technical , studying, or sales), your advantages, then you will consider what to do.

really good points.